# Tarbert, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilnaughtin, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry; in Irish Tairbeart. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,544,286 m² (154.43 ha, 381.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 358 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilnaughtin, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kilnaughtin.md - Barony: Iraghticonnor - Electoral division: Tarbert, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Tarbert electoral division: 757 people in 319 households; 82% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24188 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 72566 - Centre: latitude 52.580442, longitude -9.374647 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tarbert, from 4 m² to 1,204,055 m² (120.41 ha, 297.53 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5094900: 1,204,055 m² (120.41 ha, 297.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5094900.md - Parcel 1202695: 108,749 m² (10.87 ha, 26.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1202695.md - Parcel 1240216: 89,256 m² (8.93 ha, 22.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1240216.md - Parcel 1224166: 52,455 m² (5.25 ha, 12.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1224166.md - Parcel 1204659: 47,621 m² (4.76 ha, 11.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1204659.md - Parcel 1193615: 14,222 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1193615.md - Parcel 1223469: 8,231 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1223469.md - Parcel 5094893: 3,856 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5094893.md - Parcel 3055255: 1,212 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3055255.md - Parcel 5794416: 1,114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5794416.md - Parcel 1139879: 799 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1139879.md - Parcel 1140373: 690 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1140373.md - Parcel 1148488: 578 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1148488.md - Parcel 1200025: 536 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1200025.md - Parcel 1190055: 534 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1190055.md - Parcel 1237136: 510 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1237136.md - Parcel 1163341: 483 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1163341.md - Parcel 1217908: 480 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1217908.md - Parcel 1242621: 479 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1242621.md - Parcel 1243270: 475 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1243270.md - Parcel 1149813: 460 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1149813.md - Parcel 1211664: 452 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1211664.md - Parcel 1194361: 407 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1194361.md - Parcel 1244490: 404 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1244490.md - Parcel 5629524: 385 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5629524.md - Parcel 1241913: 385 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1241913.md - Parcel 1246003: 385 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1246003.md - Parcel 1238662: 374 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1238662.md - Parcel 1214624: 367 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1214624.md - Parcel 1208652: 367 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208652.md - Parcel 1232882: 364 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1232882.md - Parcel 1184540: 353 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1184540.md - Parcel 1146604: 352 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1146604.md - Parcel 1229480: 350 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1229480.md - Parcel 1206100: 344 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1206100.md - Parcel 1141500: 332 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1141500.md - Parcel 1228070: 329 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1228070.md - Parcel 1194767: 282 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1194767.md - Parcel 1148710: 266 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1148710.md - Parcel 1245016: 264 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1245016.md - Parcel 3055235: 261 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3055235.md - Parcel 2731726: 259 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2731726.md - Parcel 3055356: 259 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3055356.md - Parcel 1191824: 257 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1191824.md - Parcel 1191322: 254 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1191322.md - Parcel 1182358: 240 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1182358.md - Parcel 1138494: 230 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138494.md - Parcel 1191032: 230 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1191032.md - Parcel 1198649: 229 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1198649.md - Parcel 1179491: 225 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1179491.md - Parcel 1196436: 224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1196436.md - Parcel 1144210: 216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1144210.md - Parcel 1195023: 209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1195023.md - Parcel 4754108: 199 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4754108.md - Parcel 1164810: 172 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1164810.md - Parcel 1143827: 128 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1143827.md - Parcel 1141843: 124 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1141843.md - Parcel 1196118: 124 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1196118.md - Parcel 1195356: 120 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1195356.md - Parcel 1195665: 116 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1195665.md - Parcel 1199650: 110 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1199650.md - Parcel 5887845: 4 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5887845.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry; 54 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.kerrycoco.ie/listowel-municipal-district-plan-2020-2026/ - M4 Built up Area (Built up area): Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.kerrycoco.ie/listowel-municipal-district-plan-2020-2026/ - G3 Landscape Protection (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.kerrycoco.ie/listowel-municipal-district-plan-2020-2026/ - R1 New/Proposed Residential (New/proposed residential): Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.kerrycoco.ie/listowel-municipal-district-plan-2020-2026/ - G1 Open Space, Park (Open space, park): Listowel Municipal District Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Kerry; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.kerrycoco.ie/listowel-municipal-district-plan-2020-2026/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 12 May 2025, Kerry County Council 25115: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCT AND INSTALL A GROUND MOUNTED SOLAR ARRAY CONSISTING OF 296 SOLAR PV PANELS ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS LOCATED WITHIN THE SITE BOUNDARY. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/25115/0 - 7 Apr 2021, Kerry County Council 21362: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. RETAIN EXISTING TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/21362/0 - 15 May 2020, Kerry County Council 20438: Refused. Permission. AMEND A PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION (KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REF 19/381) ( AN BORD PLEANALA REF ABP- 304807-19) WHICH RELATES TO A CHANGE IN THE GRID CONNECTION ROUTE FOR THE PERMITTED WIND FARM. THE REVISED ROUTE WILL ENTAIL THE CONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 12.1KM OF 38KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC CABLE CONNECTING THE EXISTING PERMITTED WINDFARM (19/381) TO THE 38Kva/110Kva SUBSTATION AT KILPADDOGE, TARBERT. THE UNDERGROUND CABLES WILL BE LOCATED ALONG THE PUBLIC ROADS R551, R552 AND L-1010 AND ALONG 2 SECTIONS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY. THE CABLE WILL BE INSTALLED IN EXCAVATED TRENCHES APPROXIMATELY 1.2M IN DEPTH AND WILL INCLUDE ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND DUCTING JOINT BAYS, COMMUNICATION CHAMBER BAYS, DRILL PITS, SHEATH LINK BOXES AND INSPECTION CHAMBERS, ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE AND GROUND WORKS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO CONSIST OF THE CONNECTION OF THE PERMITTED WINDFARM (19/381), VIA EXISTING PERMITTED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLES, TO THE PROPOSED CABLE.THE UNDERGROUND CABLE WILL BE LOCATED IN THE TOWNLANDS OF BALLYLINE WEST, BALLYMACASY, LISLAUGHTIN, GLANCULLARE SOUTH, GURTEENAVALLIG,MEELCON CARHOONA, FARRANAWANA, DOONARD UPPER, DOONARD LOWER TARBERT AND KILPADDOGE ' THE APPLICANT IS SEEKING A TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION AND OPERATIONAL PERIOD OF 25 YEARS. AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT HAS BE PREPARED AND SUBMITTED AS PART OF THIS APPLICATION. AN NIS HAS BEEN SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/20438/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC, site code 002165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002165 - Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA, site code 004077, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004077 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tarbert Bay, site code 001386 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KE003-001: Bastioned fort, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE003-001----. This site is situated on high ground and has a commanding view of the surrounding land, which is sloping S. This site is marked on the 1840-41 OS map as 'Massy's Hill'. This map shows the fort as being a small six-pointed star fort; later editions show it less clearly. Today this star-shaped fort has been practically destroyed along its N section by the ESB in building and fencing in their station. Only three points of the six survive to the S and E. This fort consists of two well-defined stone banks and a fosse, the banks now very overgrown and covered in vegetation. The internal area measures 29m N-S and c. 27m E-W. The remaining enclosing bank measures 0.3m high above the interior, a maximum of 4m above the fosse and c. 5m at the base. The width of the fosse varies from 2m-4m wide. The outer bank measures 1m high externally, 0.8m-2m above the fosse and c. 4m wide at the base. There is a break in the bank to the SE, varying from 1m-3m in width. However, because so much distortion of the fort has taken place, it is difficult to say with certainty whether this is the entrance. The plan form of the fort would suggest a date from early to mid-17th century (Toal 1995, 270-2). According to Kerrigan (1995, 102-3), ‘Fortifications that may originate from the 1641-1660 period include forts at Tarbert, Co. Kerry. The fort [KE003-001----] at Tarbert was similar in outline but somewhat larger than the tenaille trace work at Dunboy Castle [CO128-001002-] constructed by Broghill at this time. It is shown on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey as a small star fort situated on the mainland just south of the west end of Tarbert Island. It was some 250 feet across with a distance of 125 to 150 feet between the salient angles, a small six-pointed star fort. Later editions of the Ordnance Survey show the outline less clearly; the plan form may suggest a date from the beginning to the middle of the seventeenth century, and the similarity to the work at Dunboy [CO128-001001-] may indicate a Confederate or Cromwellian origin’. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 985. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013 - KE003-012: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE003-012----. This square-shaped enclosure in Leslie's Wood is adjacent to St Patrick's Terrace and is known as 'Stranavaun' (Sruthán an Mhúin, streamlet of the urine; originally the name of a streamlet, now closed up, according to a local informant). The site is square in plan, measuring internally 64m N-S and E-W. This area is enclosed by two well-defined earthen banks with a wide steep fosse. The outer bank measures 1.5m high externally, c 2m above the fosse and c 9m wide; the fosse measures 3m wide. The external height of the inner bank above the fosse measures c 3m, the internal height of the bank above the interior .5m, and the width of the bank c 8m. The entrance would appear to be on the S side. It measures 4m wide at its inner bank and 6m at the outer bank. A slight causeway can be seen over the fosse, measuring 6m in width. According to Kerrigan (1980) the principal period of construction or occupation of this type of enclosure was between 1641-59. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 979. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013 - KE003-013: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKE003-013----. Internal diameter 44m N-S, 43m E-W This univallate stone fort is cut to the S to E by the Tarbert ferry road, and it lies E of the 'Stranavaun fort' (979). It consists of a sub-circular area enclosed by a well-defined bank, which rises to 3.2m externally and on average 1.4m internally. Access to the interior is gained by a stone-lined entrance to the SW. It is 2.5m wide and c 6.8 long. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 799. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013 Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Tarbert Courthouse, court house, 1830–1835, Regional interest, registry number 21300306, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE®no=21300306. Detached seven-bay single- and two-storey former courthouse and bridewell, built 1831, now in use as heritage centre. Comprising three-bay two-storey advanced central block with two-bay single-storey flanking lateral wings with attics. Renovated and extended with pair of two-bay single-storey flat-roofed pavilion blocks at right angles to wings, incorporating fabric of former enclosed yards. Pitched and hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles and central ashlar chimneystack. Snecked rubble sandstone walls with hammered limestone quoins and projecting eaves course. Timber nine-over-nine and six-over-six pane sliding sash windows with raised limestone ashlar surrounds, lintels and sills. Lunettes to wings with ashlar surrounds. Grilles to lunettes and first floor windows. Square-headed doorway with limestone surround. Rubble boundary wall with hammered limestone quoins and cobbled capping. Plinth wall to front with replacement steel railings. Rusticated limestone gateway with ashlar hood moulding and carved plaque. - Tarbert House, house, 1700–1740, Regional interest, registry number 21300310, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KE®no=21300310. Detached seven-bay three-storey over part-raised basement early-Georgian house, built c. 1720, with three-bay side elevations. Door opening to centre originally approached by flight of steps. Renovated and possibly refenestrated, c. 1890, with single-bay single-storey projecting glazed porch added. Pitched and hipped slate roof with central valley, having rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows with render architraves. Two-pane windows to basement with iron bars. Limestone architrave to doorway, with timber panelled double-leaf door, limestone steps and glazed timber porch, built c. 1890. Retaining interior features. Detached single-bay single-storey rubble stone-built outbuilding, built c. 1840, to south-east. Detached six-bay two-storey rubble stone-built stable block, built c. 1840, to south-west retaining original fenestration with elliptical-headed integral carriage arch to ground floor. Gateway to south-west, built c. 1840, comprising pair of cut-stone octagonal piers with wrought-iron gates. Gateway to south-east, built c. 1840, comprising pair of cast-iron piers with decorative cast-iron gates and railings. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_296, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_296.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tarbert.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tarbert.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tarbert.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Tarbert with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Doonard Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/doonard-lower.md - Kilpaddoge: https://everytownland.com/kerry/kilpaddoge.md - Tarbert Island: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tarbert-island.md - Tieraclea Lower: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tieraclea-lower.md A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/tarbert - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/tarbert